“Thriller” was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $750,000. Sessions began on April 14, 1982 at 12:00 noon with Jackson and Paul McCartney recording “The Girl Is Mine”, and the album was completed with the final day of mixing on November 8, 1982. Several members of the […] More
He was sailing his boat, the 11-meter (36-foot) Sea Major, with two friends off the coast of San Francisco near the Golden Gate Bridge approximately four miles off of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach amid a voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia, to a marina south of Los Angeles, where he and Mayotte planned to be based […] More
Raised in Hughes, Arkansas, Sumlin got his first guitar when he was eight years old, but his churchgoing mother admonished him for playing “the devil’s music” (aka “the blues”). But he found out, after sneaking in some blues licks on his guitar in church, which the sounds of the blues could win over even his […] More
The concert was professionally recorded (“It’s Over” appears on the Roy Orbison box set “The Soul of Rock and Roll”) and the whole show is via Itunes as “Roy Orbison: The Last Concert.”Exhausted, he returned to his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee to rest for several days before flying again to London to film two videos […] More
Lastie joined the Paul Barbarin band at age 15 to play the trumpet, and organized a professional jazz band in his senior year at Booker T. Washington High School in New Orleans that featured a piano player named Antoine “Fats” Domino as one of its members.Lastie went on the road at age 16 with Hosa […] More
Bolin began his musical career on drums when he was thirteen and played them for two years, then switched to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and then went back to guitar.He dropped out of high school at age sixteen and began playing in bands around the city as […] More
Hedges was born the son of Dr. Thayne Alden Hedges and Ruth Evelyn Hedges Ipsen. His life in music began in Enid, Oklahoma, as he flirted with various instruments before focusing on flute and guitar. He eventually enrolled at Phillips University in Enid to study classical guitar and composition under E. J. Ulrich. Subsequently, Hedges […] More
On December 6th, his family publicly announced that “Composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before 6:00 pm on Saturday”.Zappa was survived by his wife of 26 years Gail Sloatman, who had managed much of Zappa’s business concerns in his later career, and their four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and […] More